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Hi guys, so I have an SD card in my 3DS with a bunch of stuff on it, games I bought off eshop, saves etc...

Following emunand guide it looks like the card will be formatted? So how do I install Emunand and not lose stuff on my SD card?

Can I use a different SD card, let it do its thing then copy contents from that SD card to the one that is full of stuff?

Or do I need to copy stuff of of my SD card, do the format thing then copy things back over?

Whats the best way to do this?

Also side question, with Emunand, it sounds like if you restart the system there is a chance of youupdating to Nintendo FW update on accident since after reboot it goes back to systemNand and not emunand?

What does unliking give you? What are pros and cons of unlinking vs keeping linked? Is it easy to re-link?

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OK so when your sysNAND and emuNAND are linked (by default), any games/apps installed via CIA will also appear on your sysNAND but you can't run them, so it looks really messy. Also going to Data Management in sysNAND would delete that stuff

I've unlinked just this morning, so now I have my sysNAND which has no NNID, a white theme, and no games on it whatsoever, and I don't use it at all except for DS games. My emuNAND has custom themes, a crap ton of games (my legit ones too), my NNID, friends, and so on. Unlinking them basically makes it feel like you own 2 different systems, whereas when they're linked it feels like 2 systems are awkwardly sharing resources between them.

It took me a long time to wrap my head around all this gateway mumbo jumbo, so no worries about asking too many questions. Might make a Gateway Noob video if I feel like it

So is there a step by step unlinking guide? And how do you re-link them?

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Re-linking isn't exactly possible AFAIK. Only way to get a linked sysNAND and emuNAND again is by creating a new emuNAND partition linked to your formatted sysNAND. You won't really want to do it though

And hey I'm totally down for writing a step by step guide if you're able to wait until tonight/tomorrow morning

Re-linking isn't exactly possible AFAIK. Only way to get a linked sysNAND and emuNAND again is by creating a new emuNAND partition linked to your formatted sysNAND. You won't really want to do it though

And hey I'm totally down for writing a step by step guide if you're able to wait until tonight/tomorrow morning

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Yup that would be useful not only for me but others im sure Try provide screenshots!

When you say "formatted emunand", you of course mean from the gateway menu, right? Not from system settings

also when you're copying everything back you'll realise there's a new 'Nintendo 3DS' folder on the SD. Just get rid of it and put your old one on

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Yeah, I formatted Emunand from the GW menu and replaced the Nintendo 3DS folder with my older one. I will try deleting the Nintendo 3DS folder on the SD and copying my old one. Maybe something happened when I tried replacing the new one in the SD with the old one.

EDIT: Ok, now it works. It probably had some of the new files lying around in that folder and that was messing with it. Thanks!